"Lent Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: ""Fortieth"") is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, doing penance, mortifying the flesh, repentance of sins, almsgiving, and self-denial. This event is observed in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, and Catholic Churches. Some Anabaptist and evangelical churches also observe the Lenten season. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus,"
"burning palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations. Because it is the first day of Lent, many Christians, on Ash Wednesday, often begin marking a Lenten calendar, praying a Lenten daily devotional, and abstaining from a luxury that they will not partake in until Easter Sunday arrives. Many Christian denominations emphasize fasting, as well as abstinence during the season of Lent and in particular, on its first day, Ash Wednesday. The First Council of Nicæa spoke of Lent as a period of fasting for forty days, in preparation for Eastertide. In many places, Christians historically abstained from food"
"Time. ""Liturgical colour"" (where observed): violet or purple Lent is a major penitential season of preparation for Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday and, if the penitential days of Good Friday and Holy Saturday are included, lasts for forty days, since the six Sundays within the season are not counted. In the Roman Rite, the Gloria in Excelsis Deo and the Te Deum are not used in the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours respectively, except on Solemnities and Feasts, and the Alleluia and verse that usually precede the reading of the Gospel is either omitted or replaced with another"
"Clean Monday Clean Monday (), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of Great Lent throughout Eastern Christianity and is a moveable feast, falling on the 7th Monday before Pascha. The common term for this day, ""Clean Monday"", refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting foods. It is sometimes called ""Ash Monday"", by analogy with Ash Wednesday (the day when the Western Churches begin Lent). The term is often a misnomer, as only a small subset of Eastern Catholic Churches practice the Imposition of Ashes. The Maronite"
"is the day (respectively the night) before Lent, which always starts on Ash Wednesday. The date of the Ash Wednesday is strictly regulated. It is constantly located 46 days before Easter Sunday, which in turn is celebrated on the first Sunday after the earliest full moon in spring. Despite the reforms of the Council of Benevento, which had brought forward the date of the beginning of Lent by six days, the original date (Tuesday, i the sixth week before eastern) was not forgotten, especially in rural areas as well as in protestant areas, which did not recognise these resolutions of"
"February 12 Second Tuesday: February 13 Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 13 46 days before Easter (Western Christianity): February 14 Third Thursday: February 15 Friday after Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 15 Thursday of the 8th week before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): February 15 Third Friday: February 16 First Sunday of Lent in (Western Christianity): February 18 Sunday of Cheesefare week (Eastern Christianity): February 18 Week of February 22: February 18–24 Monday after Sunday of Forgiveness (Eastern Christianity): February 19 Third Monday: February 19 Last Friday: February 23 First Saturday of Great Lent (Eastern Christianity): February 24 Last Saturday:"
"Ash Wednesday)<br> The Sacred Lance and Nails (Friday after the First Sunday in Lent)<br> The Holy Shroud (Friday after the Second Sunday in Lent)<br> The Five Holy Wounds (Friday after the Third Sunday in Lent)<br> The Precious Blood (Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent)<br> Saint Catherine of Genoa (22 March)<br> Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (16 April)<br> Our Lady of Good Counsel (26 April)<br> Saint Isidore the Farmer (15 May)<br> Saint John Nepomucene (16 May)<br> Saint Rita of Cascia (22 May)<br> Saint John Baptist de Rossi (23 May)<br> Our Lady Help of Christians (24 May)<br> Saint Ferdinand III (30 May)<br>"
"traditional fast days in Western Christianity (this tradition still continues among the Eastern Christian Churches). Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, meat, eggs, and dairy are all prohibited during the Lenten fast. This established the tradition of Pancake Day being celebrated on Shrove Tuesday. This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as ""Fat Tuesday"" to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins. In the Orthodox Church, Great Lent begins on Clean Monday, rather than Wednesday, so the household's dairy products would be used up"
"before Ash Wednesday, which falls between 4 February and 10 March (inclusive), and marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. Thus, for Roman Catholics, the period of Ordinary Time between Christmas and Lent may end amid the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth week of Ordinary Time. Ash Wednesday is a moveable feast which occurs on the 40th day (excluding Sundays) before the Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord (Easter Sunday). Ordinary Time resumes on the Monday following Solemnity of Pentecost, which is the Sunday between 10 May and 13 June that marks the 50th day of"
"Monday, the point at which Great Lent begins is at Vespers on the night of the Sunday of Forgiveness, with a ""Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness"" (in some monasteries, this ceremony is performed at Compline instead of Vespers). Thus begins the first day of the Great Fast, which is known as Clean Monday. The weeks of pre-Lent and Great Lent are anticipatory by nature; they begin on Monday and end on Sunday, each week being named for the theme of the upcoming Sunday. The hymns used during the Pre-Lenten and Lenten seasons are taken from a book called the Triodion. The"
"Filipino are ""kuwaresma"" (from the Spanish) and ""Mahál na Araw"" (""precious/great days""); the latter term is also used specifically for Holy Week. Various Christian denominations calculate the 40 days of Lent differently. The way they observe Lent also differs. In the Roman Rite Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and finishes on Holy Saturday. This comprises a period of 46 days. This includes six Sundays which are not considered part of Lenten fast. In the Ambrosian Rite, Lent begins on the Sunday that follows what is celebrated as Ash Wednesday in the rest of the Latin Catholic Church, and ends as"
"January 1, the weeks beginning on the second and sixth Sundays of Lent, the second and sixth weeks of Easter, and the 2nd, 6th, 10th, 14th, 18th, 22nd, 26th, 30th, and 34th weeks of Ordinary Time. The third week of the psalter is used for the third week of Advent, the week beginning on the third Sunday of Lent, the third and seventh weeks of Easter, and the 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 27th, and 31st weeks of Ordinary Time. The fourth week of the psalter is used for the fourth week of Advent, the days of Lent from"
"Catholic Church is notable amongst the Eastern rites employing the use of ashes on this day. Liturgically, Clean Monday—and thus Lent itself—begins on the preceding (Sunday) night, at a special service called Forgiveness Vespers, which culminates with the Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness, at which all present will bow down before one another and ask forgiveness. In this way, the faithful begin Lent with a clean conscience, with forgiveness, and with renewed Christian love. The entire first week of Great Lent is often referred to as ""Clean Week"", and it is customary to go to Confession during this week, and to"
"Sunday, in this case 42. While Quadragesima includes both Sundays and weekdays, the beginning of Lent was later changed to the preceding Wednesday, ""Ash Wednesday"", to get in forty weekdays. Quadragesima Sunday may occur as early as February 8 or as late as March 14. In both the ordinary form of the Roman rite and common English parlance it is known as the First Sunday of Lent. The ""buergbrennen"" festivities centred on a large bonfire are celebrated in the towns and villages of Luxembourg on the first Sunday of Lent to herald the coming of spring. Quadragesima Sunday Quadragesima Sunday"
"the Gospel, and a more penitential mood. Fasting does not commence until the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. The earliest the Pre-Lenten season can begin is January 18 and the latest it can end is March 9. It is absent in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite and more recent Anglican forms of all these traditions, but may be found in some Lutheran churches who use the One-Year Lectionary to organize the church year. In Northern Germany, local tradition states that if ""sausages and sauerkraut are eaten at Shrovetide, good luck will follow"". On the last day of"
"peace. The forty days of Great Lent last from Clean Monday until the Friday of the Sixth Week. Each of the Sundays of Great Lent has its own special commemoration, though these are not necessarily repeated during the preceding week. An exception is the Week of the Cross (the Fourth Week), during which the theme of the preceding Sunday—the Veneration of the Cross—is repeated throughout the week. The themes introduced in the Pre-Lenten period continue to be developed throughout the forty days. The first week of Great Lent starting on Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent. The name"
"Great Lent Great Lent, or the Great Fast, (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, meaning ""Great 40 Days,"" and ""Great Fast,"" respectively) is the most important fasting season in the church year in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church (including Western Rite Orthodoxy), Byzantine Rite Lutheran Churches and the Eastern Catholic Churches, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha (Easter). In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Western Christianity. There are some differences in the timing of Lent (besides calculating the date of Easter) and how it is practiced, both"
"for the Church of Alexandria. ""Great Lent"" consists of eight weeks (55 days), which correspond to the 40 days that Christ fasted on the mountain. With the remaining fifteen days for a week of preparation, the Holy Week which is the last week of fasting, and Lazuras Saturday. It precedes Palm Sunday, and the Holy Week, which precede Easter. The seven days of the Holy Week is also a period of rigorous fasting. There are an additional seven days of fasting before the beginning of the Great Lent, which serve as a preparatory period. Often called ""Pre-Lenten Fast"" or ""Preparatory"
"of the year (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, the vigil of Christmas or the day before, and the vigil either of the Immaculate Conception or of the Assumption). Some controversy has arisen over whether Catholics should continue to fast and abstain from the things they voluntarily gave up for Lent on the Sundays of Lent. Questions include whether the “forty days” of Lent are limited to weekdays or whether they include Sundays, and if every Sunday is like Easter. The Latin word for ""Lent"" is ""Quadragesima"" which literally means ""forty"". The term imitates many biblical images of fasting for forty days"
"Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer, fasting and repentance. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and falls on the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter. Ash Wednesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Old Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, and some Baptists. Ash Wednesday derives its name from the placing of repentance ashes on the foreheads of participants to either the words ""Repent, and believe in the Gospel"" or the dictum ""Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."" The ashes may be prepared by"
"and Ash Wednesday. In the Revised Common Lectionary the Sunday before Lent is designated ""Transfiguration Sunday"", and the gospel reading is the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus from Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Some churches whose lectionaries derive from the RCL, e.g. the Church of England, use these readings but do not designate the Sunday ""Transfiguration Sunday"". In the Eastern Orthodox Church, its equivalent, the Sunday before Great Lent, is called ""Forgiveness Sunday"", ""Maslenitsa Sunday"", or ""Cheesefare Sunday"". The latter name comes because this Sunday concludes Maslenitsa, the week in which butter and cheese may be eaten, which are prohibited"
"the beginning of Great Lent and Pentecost, but affecting the cycle of moveable feasts, of scriptural readings and the Octoechos (texts chanted according to the eight ecclesiastical modes) throughout the year. There are also a number of lesser feasts throughout the year that are based upon the date of Pascha. The moveable cycle begins on the Zacchaeus Sunday (the first Sunday in preparation for Great Lent or the 33rd Sunday after Pentecost as it is known), though the cycle of the Octoechos continues until Palm Sunday. The date of Pascha affects the following liturgical seasons: Some of these feasts follow"
"week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the marketplaces with the blood offered to pagan idols, knowing that the people would be hungry after the strict fasting of the first week. St Theodore appeared in a dream to Archbishop Eudoxius, ordering him to inform all the Christians that no one should buy anything at the marketplaces, but rather to eat cooked wheat with honey (kolyva). The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph"
"Luke, before beginning his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan. Depending on the Christian denomination and local custom, Lent ends on the evening of Holy Thursday with Easter Vigil at sundown on Holy Saturday, on the morning of Easter Sunday, or at the midnight between them. The English word ""Lent"" is a shortened form of the Old English word ""len(c)ten"", meaning ""spring season"", as its Dutch language cognate ""lente"" (Old Dutch ""lentin"") still does today. A dated term in German, ""Lenz"" (Old High German ""lenzo""), is also related. According to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", 'the shorter form"
"fasting and abstinence is postponed to the first Friday in the Ambrosian Lent, nine days later. Many Lutheran parishes teach communicants to fast on Ash Wednesday, with some people choosing to continue doing so throughout the entire season of Lent, especially on Good Friday. ""A Handbook for the Discipline of Lent"" recommends the Lutheran guideline to ""Fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday with only one simple meal during the day, usually without meat"". In the Anglican Communion, the entire forty days of Lent are designated days of fasting and abstinence in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, with the"
"rite"", do not practice the distribution of ashes as it is ""not part of their ancient tradition"". In the Ambrosian Rite, ashes are blessed and placed on the heads of the faithful not on the day that elsewhere is called Ash Wednesday, but at the end of Mass on the following Sunday, which in that rite inaugurates Lent, with the fast traditionally beginning on Monday, the first weekday of the Ambrosian Lent. Ash Wednesday marks the start of a 40-day period which is an allusion to the separation of Jesus in the desert to fast and pray. During this time"
"and replaced it with what would later be called the Commination Office. In that 1549 edition, the rite was headed: ""The First Day of Lent: Commonly Called Ash-Wednesday"". The ashes ceremony was not forbidden, but was not included in the church's official liturgy. Its place was taken by reading biblical curses of God against sinners, to each of which the people were directed to respond with Amen. The text of the ""Commination or Denouncing of God's Anger and Judgments against Sinners"" begins: ""In the primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as"
"which one could begin a forty-day Lenten fast that excluded from its observance Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The 17-day period beginning on Septuagesima Sunday was intended to be observed as a preparation for the season of Lent, which is itself a period of spiritual preparation (for Easter). In many countries, however, Septuagesima Sunday marked and still marks the traditional start of the carnival season, culminating on Shrove Tuesday, sometimes known as Mardi Gras. In the pre-1970 Roman Rite liturgy, the ""Alleluia"" ceases to be said during the liturgy. At first Vespers of Septuagesima Sunday, two alleluias are added to the"
"of the two days before Easter, and in the latter the ""expositio symboli"" and ""traditio symboli"" are given at great length. The moveable feasts depended, of course, on Easter. When the Roman Church altered the Easter computation from the old 84-year-cycle to the new Victorius Aquitaine 532-year-cycle in 457, the Gallican Church, unlike the Celts, did the same; but when, in 525, the Roman Church adopted the Dionysius Exiguus 19-year-cycle, the Gallican Church continued to use the 532-year-cycle, until the end of the 8th or beginning of the 9th century. Lent began with the first Sunday, not with Ash Wednesday."
"for ""Fat Tuesday"", referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday. The tradition of marking the start of Lent has been documented for centuries. Ælfric of Eynsham's ""Ecclesiastical Institutes"" from around 1000 AD states: ""In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]"". By the time of the late Middle"
"Quadragesima Sunday Quadragesima Sunday or Invocavit Sunday is the Sunday occurring after Ash Wednesday. In Roman Catholic tradition, it is the first Sunday during the holy season of Lent. Like on other Sundays of Lent, it is customary to dispense from the fast on Quadragesima, as Sundays are not counted among the forty days of Lent. The term ""Quadragesima"" is derived from the Latin word for ""fortieth"", as there are exactly forty days from Quadragesima Sunday until Good Friday. However, like Quinquagesima, Sexagesima and Septuagesima, the numeral is more likely an approximation of how many days there are until Easter"
"which recalls the tradition and events of the New Testament beginning on Palm Sunday, further climaxing on Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday, which ultimately culminates in the joyful celebration on Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Lent, many Christians commit to fasting, as well as giving up certain luxuries in order to replicate the sacrifice of Jesus Christ's journey into the desert for 40 days. Many Christians also add a Lenten spiritual discipline, such as reading a daily devotional or praying through a Lenten calendar, to draw themselves near to God. The Stations of the Cross, a"
"some Protestant calendars. It is a transition from the first part of the season ""per annum"" to the season of Lent, and a preparation for the fasting and penance which begin on Ash Wednesday. Although most of the Divine Office remains the same as during the season ""per annum"", certain customs of Lent are adopted, including the suppression of the ""Alleluia"", the replacement of the Alleluia at Mass with the Tract and the Gloria is no longer said on Sundays. In the 1969 reform of the Roman Rite, this intermediate season was removed, with these weeks becoming part of Ordinary"